Posted on 01/22/2019 3:52:29 PM PST by detective
Two New Orleans Saints season-ticket holders filed a lawsuit against the NFL on Tuesday, asking a Louisiana state court judge to order Commissioner Roger Goodell to invoke an obscure rule that could force the final moments of Sunday's NFC Championship game to be replayed.
No penalty was called after Rams defensive back Nickell Robey-Coleman hit Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis while a Drew Brees pass was in the air with fewer than two minutes remaining in a tie game. A flag for pass interference would have given the Saints a first down and enabled them to run down the clock before kicking a potential game-winning field goal. Instead, New Orleans kicked a go-ahead field goal to take a 23-20 lead with 1:41 left. The Rams responded with a late field goal of their own and went on to win, 26-23, in overtime.
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You can find uncalled major penalties in every game ever played. They lost, get over it.
You have to have standing to sue, and you have to show an injury. Aside from their disappointment what is their economic harm that they want the Court to redress?
They paid to see the playoff game, and it was a great game, albeit turned against them through a ridiculously bad no-call. They won’t be paying for Super Bowl tickets. They have no economic loss.
I am convinced that the in certain games referees are told to try and let certain teams win, or make the game as exciting as possible. Missing calls, and calling holding or illegal contact can either kill a drive or keep one going,
Wrong market, coasts are where the network brass are.
If any lawsuit is allowed to go forward, it’s the end of professional sports. Hell might even be the end of college sports. There will be a suit filed after every game.
I played organized softball and baseball for a couple of decades as an adult. I loved the game and still do.
Can’t tell folks how many bad calls went against me over time, but I did finally morph my thoughts on these “bad calls”.
Let’s face it, players makes mistakes all the time. Coaches put a new pitcher in taking scouting reports into consideration. The next pitch the opposing batter hits the ball out of the park. The game is filled with examples of mistakes. Some cost a game some don’t.
Umpires or referees are no different. They will also make bad calls. Sometimes those calls go with you, and sometimes those calls go against you. That is simply the game.
I used to think of bad calls as being unfair, and ultimately they are. Life isn’t always fair. You have to explain that to your kids as they grow up.
Baseball, Football, Basketball, and whatever sport is refereed, bad calls will be made. It is part of the game. This is a game after all, and things just don’t always go your way. Life is not always fair.
Learning to roll with the punches is a part of the game.
I know there’s a lot of money involved. I know that in the Olympics, some athletes don’t get good scores due to political gamesmanship.
It is what it is. If you don’t want calls to go against you. Don’t play. If you do, they will on occasion go against you.
Be a good person. Be a good loser when your turn comes up.
Just say'n.
You probably won’t find in the history of the NFL a screwed-up call that was decisive in the last minutes of a conference championship as egregious as this one.
I hope the NFL gets eaten alive over this. Couldn’t happen to more deserving folks. Wonder how the new XFL is shaping up?
Harm need not be economic to sue.
There’s an excellent case to be made that the NFL’s negligence is to blame.
These are part-time referees. It would be a trivial cost to make them full time employees, in the NFL’s budget - this is the same NFL that had $100 million to throw at hard-left causes in the wake of Kaepernick, so they have no excuse to have part timers ref the game.
Suit’s got more merit than it looks on the surface. May this destroy the league!
Tuck rule
Sounds like a Seahawks game.
Anything that destroys the nfl is fine with me.
Wrong market, coasts are where the network brass are.
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Yep. As a Spurs fan - I’ve seen this for decades. It’s all about the TV ratings.
“I am convinced that the in certain games referees are told to try and let certain teams win.”
I agree. I made the conclusion that umpires and refs choose winners before the game in 1997 when the Marlins won the World Series over silly calls. My hunch is that some owners bribe the refs. My hunch is supported by the fact that Pete Rose is punished for using money to change the score and Barry Bonds is rewarded for using drugs to change the score. Rams won on a lame call. Whatever. Just go with the flow and enjoy the show.
Their most certainly is an economic loss. To the players AND the team.
Here’s how much players on the winning and losing teams in Super Bowl LII will earn and how much money players on other playoff teams took home during the 2018 NFL playoffs: Players on the Super Bowl championship team will make $112,000. Players on the losing team will earn $56,000.Feb 2, 2018
Super Bowl 2018: How much money do winners, losers get paid ...
https://www.syracuse.com/superbowl/.../super_bowl_2018_how_much_money_do_win...
OMGosh, that would be HILARIOUS!
Please please please . . .
Yes, but neither the players nor the team are suing.
“You have to have standing to sue, and you have to show an injury.”
“According to Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1 of the NFL rulebook, the league commissioner “has the sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which the Commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game.” Remedies include reversal of a game’s result or the rescheduling of a game — in its entirety or from the point when the act occurred.”
They are suing to replay the game or part of it.
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